That's awesome...thanks David. -- Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** <_||_> in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, David Mihm wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Say, I'm setting up some additional rules in my Procmailrc filters and > > there are some items I wish to specify on the "kill" list. Now the reason > > for this "kill" list is so that the incoming message won't even be stored > > as soon as the parameters for this rule are satisfied. I want to delete > > the message outright. I don't want to store it in another folder such as > > is being done now. When I told it to "delete" it simply created a folder > > named "delete" in Pine's mail dir. Kind-a cute, but not the desire effect. > > > > I was very particular in the items I have this "kill" filter looking for > > cause I didn't want to catch any wanted mail by accident and so far it's > > working great. IT's just placing the messages in a folder instead of > > deleting them. So, what's the delete command to set in the .procmailrc > > file? > > The place you want to send off into never-never land is called /dev/null; > aka the bit bucket. All things sent here disappear. ;) > > :0 > * ^Apparently-to:.* > /dev/null > > ...as an example. The procmailex man page has many more great suggestions. > > HTH > -- > | d a v i d @ m i h m > | dmihm @ swbell.net > | webmaster @ afterstep.org > | ftpmaster @ afterstep.org > | dmihm @ rchitecture.com > -- >
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